eletter-07-24-2017

The Raspberry Pi lineup was expanded in February 2017 with the Raspberry Pi Zero W[1], a $10 personal computer with wireless connectivity. What a wonderful time this is for hobbyists, makers, tinkerers, hackers, and, yes, the few of us who are actually trying to do our job designing “real” electronic products! While slight differences [...]

One half of the Embedded Insiders made a trip to Southern California this week, where he encountered to opposite sides of the Industrial IoT spectrum. On one end, engineers from ADL Embedded Solutions discussed how its legacy of standard board products and MIL-SPEC designs are filling a need at the mist computing level. At the [...]

On Tuesday the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released the long-awaited Bluetooth Mesh specification, a technology rumored to disrupt smart lighting, smart home, smart retail, and building automation networks for some time. Version 1.0 of the Bluetooth Mesh specification is somewhat of an optional “profile” based on the LE 1M PHY (physical layer) and [...]

Kotlin, a new language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that gets its name from Kotlin Island, near St. Petersburg, makes Android development more streamlined in many ways. In 2011, an unveiled version of Kotlin f...